#mosques destroyed

[news4dzhozhar]

[leroibobo]

really do not think people understand the extent to which palestinian sites/landmarks (especially muslim ones) were destroyed, beginning in 1948 until now, even in cities. the oldest extant mosque in jaffa (al-bahr mosque) was built in 1675, even though islam came there in the 7th century

[graculusdraws]

[d4rk-x-w0lf-17]

the fact that the palestinian genocide can be summed up as

person 1: these people are being murdered

person 2: no they aren't, where's your proof

person 1: (shows links to several videos, photos, articles and documents)

person 2: i'm not reading that

[workersolidarity]

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💥ISRAELI OCCUPATION BOMBING DESTROYS 7TH CENTURY GREAT OMARI MOSQUE IN GAZA CITY💥

📹 The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), in its bombing campaign and genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, destroyed the 7th Century Great Omari Mosque in the Old City of Gaza.

Archeologists believe the Omari Mosque was once the ancient site of a Philistine temple, before the Byzantines erected a church on the site in the 5th century AD.

After the 7th Century Muslim conquest of the Levant, the church was transformed into the Great Omari Mosque known today.

The ancient mosque endured a major earthquake in the early 11th century which toppled its minaret but left the mosque standing. The mosque even survived the Crusades and several wars throughout the following centuries, only to be destroyed by Israeli bombing in the closing days of 2023.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[xtruss]

In Gaza, Forever Palestine 🇵🇸, Where There is Little Food, Mosques Have Been Destroyed By the “God’s Cursed, Fucked-up and Terrorist Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗” and Millions of People Homeless and Living in Fear of Death ………….What is The Holy Month of Ramadan Going to Feel Like?

[never-was-has-been]

And the US Govt & the UN are okay with this? Where is the Global media to report this, Globally? Oh, I know...they're all distracted with Ohtani's interpreter's "gambling problem", eh?

[snekdood]

i just kinda feel like if you asked ram he'd tell you he doesnt rly give a huge fuck about all this like yall do lmao

[perrieedwards]

i feel like people are skimming over the uk riots in a way that makes me want to tear my hair out. muslims in the uk are in active danger. immigrants in the uk are in active danger. refugees in the uk are in active danger. people of colour in the uk are in active danger. asian communities in the uk are in active danger. black communities in the uk are in active danger.

there are massive far right riots throughout the country right now and people like fucking elon musk and nigel farage are inciting it and still have a platform to speak. people have used three young girls deaths, people's genuine grief in southport, to try and gain traction for their own racist bullshit and it's working.

a lot of refugee charities have been forced to close leaving many people without support, homes, funding, food, etc. if you aren't able to donate please consider sending a message via the conversation over borders campaign! it will send a hopeful, welcoming letter to a refugee in the uk. there is also a guide to staying safe here.

please do your own research and donate to refugee charities, anti-islamophobia charities, mosques who are trying to rebuild after being destroyed, counter protesters, here are some i've heard positive things about but the list is extensive; southport strong together (support for the southport victims and their families), southport mosque rebuilding, riot repair fund, middlesbrough vulnerable residents, nasir mosque rebuilding, hull help for refugees, bristol welcomes migrants,

[idontmindifuforgetme]

Israel has bombed—and completely demolished—the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza, which is the second oldest mosque in Palestine. There was no purpose to bombing it. There was no advantage to targeting it. Israel simply destroyed it to make a statement: that Palestinian religion and culture not only mean nothing to them, but are something they’re actively working on wiping out. This was one of Palestine’s most sacred cultural sites. Now it’ll forever serve as proof of the horrifying death and destruction the world has allowed to befall Palestine.

[probablyasocialecologist]

A Massive Database of Evidence, Compiled by a Historian, Documents Israel's War Crimes in Gaza

The report Dr. Mordechai has compiled online – "Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War" – constitutes the most methodical and detailed documentation in Hebrew (there is also an English translation) of the war crimes that Israel is perpetrating in Gaza. It is a shocking indictment comprised of thousands of entries relating to the war, to the actions of the government, the media, the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli society in general. The English translation of the seventh, and to date latest version of the text, is 124 pages long and contains over 1,400 footnotes referencing thousands of sources, including eyewitness reports, video footage, investigatory materials, articles and photographs. For example, there are links to texts and other kinds of testimony describing acts attributed to IDF soldiers who were seen "shooting civilians waving white flags, abuse of individuals, captives and corpses, gleefully damaging or destroying houses, various structures and institutions, religious sites and looting personal belongings, as well as randomly firing their weapons, shooting local animals, destroying private property, burning books within libraries, defacing Palestinian and Islamic symbols (including burning Qurans and turning mosques into dining spaces)."

[...]

"I wrote this so that in another half-year or in 100 years, people will go back and see that this is what it was possible to know, as early as January, and that those among us who didn't know, chose not to know."

5 December 2024

[blackpearlblast]

[ID: drawings of a golem animated by a palestinian flag painted on its forehead. it is seen: holding out its arms protectively in front of a crowd of children, the children also hold each other supportively; catching an air strike missile from the air and throwing it away or crushing it in its fist; turning its back so that a child can warm her hands by the earth oven built into its back, food in a pot is cooking on the fire and a boy holds a cup of steaming tea to his face and enjoys the aroma; clearing away rubble so a man can help up his wife who was buried underneath, she is clutching a baby to her chest; stooping down to look at a kitten a young boy is holding up to show it; and dissolving small flakes of clay from its finger into a glass of water, purifying it. end ID]

@fairuzfan asked people to create and share art for the strike. i wrote an artist statement and then set about trying to draw what i envisioned. artist statement below.

This golem is a protector that I wish I could gift to the children and adults in Gaza. The flag on its forehead is to show that love for the Palestinian people is an animating force for people fighting for a free Palestine all over the world, especially for those in Palestine who are trying to free themselves and their people. Love is the motivation for the call for a free Palestine, not hatred like people try to claim. It is very strong and fast and can catch air strikes out of midair and crush them to dust or throw them back in the direction they came from. It can lift all the rubble of a collapsed building very quickly so nobody can get trapped underneath. It has an earth oven in its back with an ever-burning flame that people can use to warm themselves and cook food and heat water to use to bathe themselves or make tea. Pieces of its clay can be crumbled up and mixed into water to make even the most brackish and unclean water pure and safe to drink.

The golem is always a bit of a tragic figure so I don't imagine it staying around forever once Palestine is free and it is no longer needed. I think it would use its great strength to help rebuild the destroyed houses, churches, schools, universities, hospitals, and mosques and then dive into the Jordan river and dissolve. It would clean the river of all pollution and make the water splash up over all the newly replanted fruit trees, causing them to grow big and strong. Its love for Palestine and its people can be tasted in the fruit they grow for generations.

I choose a specifically Jewish icon of protection because of how it feels to witness such horrors done in the supposed name of Judaism and the Jewish people. For many anti-zionist Jews, we feel like we are acting directly within the teachings of our stories and communities by opposing this genocide. It is difficult to understand how the very people and institutions who taught us these values now fight against them so fiercely. While obviously I would still oppose Israel were I not Jewish, the way I oppose Israel is directly informed by my Jewishness. I hope that someday, somehow, Judaism can bring as much joy and support to the Palestinian people as it has brought grief and destruction. That Jewish symbols used in the name of love and justice will bear more significance than the ones used in shows of hatred. Knowing the depth of the harm caused, I do not know if this is possible. But this artwork and everything I have dedicated myself to these past few months and continue to dedicate myself to in the future is born from this hope. I love you. Thank you for being on this planet with me. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! And it will be beautiful.

[shehzadi]

new video circulating of an israeli soldier having broken into a palestinian family’s home and going through the wife’s intimates while degrading and slut-shaming her for… wearing underwear? owning lingerie to share with her husband? i don’t understand what his disgust was about considering he feels none at all at being a genocidal psychopath who celebrates, if not partakes in, inflicting all kinds of abuse and torture. maybe the fact that palestinians are normal people? who have relationships? maybe it’s jealousy because he knows will never have a loving relationship, who knows. and quite frankly, who cares.

the point is that it is literally an intrusion into one of the most personal aspects of palestinians’ lives. it is another act of defiling and tarnishing everything and anything palestinians hold dear, like all the other iof soldiers proposing and announcing marriage dates amidst the rubble of the palestinian homes they destroyed, israeli celebrities and soldiers signing missiles and bombs to be dropped on palestinians with ‘good luck!!!’s and birthday dedications, israeli settlers singing and dancing to lyrics promoting genocide, israeli soldiers laughing as they detonate bombs in mosques and other buildings, planting israeli flags on schools they bombed.

every step an ‘israeli’ takes on palestinian land feels like a personal physical violation, even to me, a non-palestinian. and then people question why palestinians resist. they have been being violated like this, physically and psychologically, for over 75 years.

[hindulivesmatter]

Exhibit 97

Arab colonialism generally adheres to the same blueprint of land theft, displacement, and genocidal violence. When Islam plants a mosque somewhere, it believes this is conquered land and it's theirs forever, no matter what Temple or Church it builds on top of.

What sets it apart, however, is that it also attempts to project its own abuses onto its victims.

Rather than acknowledge their glaringly obvious 1400-year uber-colonial history, they will invert perceptions of history and reality in an attempt to self-indigenize.

They then usurp the cultures, stories, and legacies of indigenous peoples for themselves (but only the convenient parts - you'll never see Palestinians claim Judas) and disenfranchise the people they stole it from.

They will furiously deny that their ancestors were, in fact, colonizers who conquered their way on land on which they now occupy. Instead, they will frame themselves as native peoples who simply embraced Arab identity/converted to Islam, while the actual indigenous peoples are framed as nothing more than a pathetic band of rejects and cosplayers whose ancestors either never lived on the land to begin with, or were rightfully cast out (or have been cast out for so long that they have lost all right to return).

I can think of few other colonizers that do this. And because this behavior deviates from what we typically understand as "baseline colonialism", it becomes immeasurably harder to identify and more complex to counter.

[sayruq]

This is the Great Omari Mosque aleo known as the Great Mosque of Gaza, is Gaza’s oldest and largest mosque.

Here are some pictures before the destruction